“There is a feeling of inevitability in that line of station wagons, advancing like a column of tanks, and DeLillo’s words provide subversive ammunition against them.” On White Noise and college move-in day. | The New Yorker

How does one tell the story of a revolution? On four books that track the fallout of popular uprisings in Egypt and Syria. | The Nation

“It’s getting to work, and saying it out loud, and reminding every person I meet on a bus and every Uber driver and every girlfriend who isn’t ‘a reader’ that they, too, will like these things that I work every day in support of.” An interview with National Book Foundation director Lisa Lucas. | The New York Times Magazine

“There is something really valuable about a kind of unbridled ridicule that also drills down to the things that people seem to really stick to and be proud of and asks them whether they really believe in those things and whether they really should feel so proud of them. “ An interview with Mark Greif. | VICE

“Dancing-master, he said from a mouth stained with meat, why do you not try your hand at reforming the wild young man?” A short story by Alexandra Kleeman. | BuzzFeed Reader

The print was small, but the ambition was titanic: On the Morgan Library’s new exhibition celebrating Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. | The New York Times

There are many more stories out there: Tope Folarin on Western expectations and “accessible” narratives in African fiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Spoiler alerts: on misguided spoiler panic and why we should all calm down.

Remembering the poet Max Ritvo: Death is actually very funny: a last conversation with Ritvo and Justin Boening • “The End,” a poem by the late poet • Where Is Max Ritvo’s heaven? On the death of a young poet and the limits of imagination.

Tracy K. Smith on race, love, hate, and Lucille Clifton; part two of the poet’s conversation with Paul Holdengraber.